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Adi Granov
Granov at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
Nationality	British, Bosnian
Area(s)	Artist
Official website

Adi Granov is a Bosnian-British comic book artist and conceptual designer.

Early life[link]

Adi Granov was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia.^[1] During the war in his home country he and his family emigrated to the United States.

Career[link]

Adi Granov started his professional career as a concept artist at Nintendo Software Technologies, working on Bionic Commando and Wave Race: Blue Storm, among other titles. He provided illustrations for Wizards of the Coast on their Star Wars and Wheel of Time games. Adi provided artwork for a short story for Metal Hurlant magazine published by Humanoids Publishing, before illustrating Necrowar miniseries for Dreamwave Productions. In 2003 Granov started working for Marvel Comics providing covers to Iron Man, She-Hulk, Inhumans and Thor, and was named as one of the Marvel Comics Young Guns. In 2004 Granov teamed with comic book writer Warren Ellis for the post-Avengers Disassembled relaunch of Iron Man. He helped design the Iron Man suit for Jon Favreau's 2008 Iron Man film, also providing conceptual illustrations and designs for scenes and action sequences, and drew an Iron Man mini-series written by the film's director Jon Favreau.^[2][3] Adi resumed his role on Iron Man 2 as well as the Avengers movies.

Granov has provided covers for Marvel Comics including Iron Man, X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Black Widow, Hulk, Captain America, Fantastic Four and many others, as well as illustrating short stories for Astonishing X-Men and Dark Reign titles.

Recently Granov provided cover artwork for video games Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 from Capcom and Heroes of Ruin from Square-Enix, as well as illustrating the cover for Wolverine & The X-Men: The Complete Series DVD from Lionsgate.

Personal life[link]

Granov lives in Leeds, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom,^[1] with his wife, makeup artist Tamsin Isles, who provides color assistance on some of his work, and handles his public relations, art sales, appearances and maintains his fansite.^[4]

Granov's hobbies and interests include aeroplanes, trains and cars, in particular working on his 1967 Lotus Elan.^[4]

Bibliography[link]

Marvel Comics[link]

Interiors[link]

• The Amazing Spider-Man (Venom story) #568 (2008)
• Dark Reign: The Cabal one-shot (2009)
• Iron Man, vol. 4, #1-6 (2005–06)
• Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas, miniseries, #1-3 (2008)
• Tales of Suspense Commemorative Edition: Captain America and Iron Man #1 (2005)
• X-Men Unlimited #2 (2004)
• Young Guns Sketchbook 2004 (2005)

Covers[link]

• Agents of Atlas, 12-part limited series, #3, 11 (2009)
• Assault on New Olympus #1 (2010)
• The Amazing Spider-Man #569, 595, 602, 608-610, 612 (2008–09)
• Amazing Spider-Man Family #1 (2008)
• Avengers/Invaders #3 (2007)
• Black Widow: Deadly Origin, miniseries, #1-3 (2009–10)
• Cable, vol. 2, #6 (2008)
• Captain America: Hail Hydra #1-6 (2010)
• Dark Avengers #1 (2009)
• Nova, vol. 3, #1-10 (2007), 21 (2009)
• Fantastic Four #538-543 (2006)
• Incredible Hulk #636 (2011)
• Inhumans, vol. 3, #8-12 (2004)
• Invaders Now #1 (2010)
• Iron Man, vol. 3, #75-83 (2004)
• Iron Man, vol. 4, #1-15 (2005–07), 29-35 (2008–09)
• Iron Man: I Am Iron Man #1-2 (2010)
• Iron Man 2: Public Identity (2010)
• New Avengers #5, 24 (2005–06)
• New Mutants, vol. 3, #12-14 (2010)
• Secret Warriors #7 (along with Jim Cheung) (2009)
• Secret Avengers #13-15 (2011)
• She-Hulk, vol. 2, #1-4 (2004)
• Siege Embedded #1-4 (2010)
• Silver Surfer, vol. 3, #5, 8 (2004)
• Skaar: Son of Hulk #13 (2009)
• Thor: Son of Asgard, miniseries, #1-6 (2004)
• Thunderbolts #141-143 (2010)
• Uncanny X-Men #523-525 (2010)
• War of Kings #5 (2009)
• Wolverine: Weapon X #4 (2009)
• X-Force, vol. 3, #26-28 (2010)
• X-Men, vol. 3, #1-6 (2010), 20-23 (2011)
• X-Men: Legacy #231-233, 235-237 (2010)
• X-Men Origins: Cyclops, one-shot (2010)
• X-Men: Second Coming #1-2 (2010)

Books and compilations[link]

• Iron Man Extremis collects Iron Man, vol. 4, #1-6 tpb, 160 pages, softcover, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2258-3, hardcover, ISBN 0-7851-1612-5)

Other work[link]

Granov has also contributed to Devil's Due's GI Joe Reloaded in 2004, as well as Humanoids Publishing's Metal Hurlant and Dreamwave Productions' Necrowar. He also provided artworks for Magic: The Gathering card game. He also designed all the suits for the Iron Man film. He also designed the cover art for the Western versions of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds.

Notes[link]

References[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Adi Granov

• Adi Granov at the Comic Book DB

External links[link]

• Official website
• Adi Granov at the Internet Movie Database

Olivier Coipel
Coipel at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, October 10, 2010.
Nationality	French
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	Legion of Super-Heroes Thor

Olivier Coipel is a French comic book artist, known for his work on books such as House of M, Legion of Super-Heroes andThor.

Career[link]

Coipel came to prominence and significant controversy as the artist of the American DC Comics book Legion of Super-Heroes during the tenure of writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning.,^[1] beginning with the Legion Lost story arc. Despite complaints about his art style by long-time Legion of Super-Heroes fans - who felt his style was "too rough and unrefined", leading to more than one prominent critic to refer to him as "Ol' Scratchy" - Coipel continued to draw the series when it was relaunched under the new title The Legion.

Coipel signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics in January 2005.^[2] He was named in August 2005 as one of Marvel's "Young Guns," a group of artists that that included Jim Cheung, David Finch, Trevor Hairsine, Adi Granov, and Steve McNiven, which according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, exhibited the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller."

One of Coipel's first major works at Marvel was House of M, an eight issue New Avengers/X-Men crossover limited series with writer Brian Michael Bendis. Coipel was then announced as artist on a new Thor ongoing series that launched in July 2007 with writer J. Michael Straczynski. Coipel left the title in 2009 when it was announced Straczynski would be leaving. Coipel re-teamed with Bendis for the four-issue 2009 Marvel Comics event series Siege. In 2010, he provided art for a Magneto-focused backup story leading into the Young Avengers miniseries Avengers: the Children's Crusade, before returning to Thor in 2011, illustrating the first arc on Matt Fraction's The Mighty Thor.^[3]

On April 9, 2011 Coipel was one of 62 comics creators who appeared at the IGN stage at the Kapow! convention in London to set two Guinness World Records, the Fastest Production of a Comic Book, and Most Contributors to a Comic Book. With Guinness officials on hand to monitor their progress, writer Mark Millar began work at 9am scripting a 20-page black and white Superior comic book, with Coipel and the other artists appearing on stage throughout the day to work on the pencils, inks, and lettering, including Dave Gibbons, Frank Quitely, John Romita Jr., Jock,^[4] Doug Braithwaite, Ian Churchill, Duncan Fegredo, Simon Furman, David Lafuente, John McCrea, Sean Phillips and Liam Sharp,^[5] who all drew a panel each, with regular Superior artist Leinil Yu creating the book's front cover. The book was completed in 11 hours, 19 minutes, and 38 seconds, and was published through Icon on November 23, 2011, with all royalties being donated to Yorkhill Children's Foundation.^[4]

Bibliography[link]

Marvel Comics[link]

• Avengers #65-70, 77-78, 80-81
• Black Panther #16 (Cover only)
• House of M #1-8
• Marvel Spotlight: Daniel Way/Olivier Coipel
• New Avengers #3 (Variant Cover Only), 23
• Ultimate X-Men #61 (Variant Cover Only)
• New Avengers Annual #1
• Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man #1 (Lead Story)
• Uncanny X-Men #448-449
• Young Guns Sketchbook 2004
• Thor #1-6, 9-12, 600
• Hulk #5 (Variant Cover Only)
• Siege #1-4
• The Mighty Thor #1-6

DC Comics[link]

• The Legion #1-4, 5 (cover), 6-8, 9 (cover), 10-12, 13 (cover), 14
• Legion Lost #1-3, 4 (cover), 5, 6 (cover), 8, 9 (cover), 10-12
• Legion of Super Heroes vol. 4 #122-123, 125 (cover)
• Legionnaires #78-81
• Legion Worlds #1 (backup)

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Olivier Coipel at Marvel
• Interview: "J'aime reprendre des personnages que je ne connais pas"

External links[link]

• Olivier Coipel at the Comic Book DB